Social and State Order in the Space of Non-Formal Education for Children

ANNOTATION Social and State Order in The Space of Non-Formal Education for Children. The work has a scientific and an applied scientific research purpose. The scientific research purpose is to identify the dependence of the ideas of social and state order informants about the children non-formal education services on the location of organizations. The applied scientific research purpose is to compile information maps in the megalopolis area (in the inter-district context) according to the identified preferences of the subjects of interaction acting as informants of the state and social order. The key participants of the educational process - children, teachers, parents and administrators - are the informants. Each group has their own requirements for children non-formal education and these requirements do not often coincide, but contradict each other. Moreover, the groups of “significant adults” have their own ideas about non-formal education development, and these ideas differ depending on the location of children additional education organizations. The revealed differences allowed us to develop information maps of adults’ and children’s preferences in each district of St. Petersburg. The findings of the work can be useful for making management decisions at the city level and at the district level. Key words: state order, social order; additional education, non-formal education; population density; district clusters; representation; informants.